BBC World Histories - 10.2019 - 11.2019
GETTY IMAGES The feeling there is that referendums require very careful thinking and planning. So, rather fascinatingly, the Spa ...
CULTURE Agenda THE METROPOLITAIN MUSEUM OF ART Agenda EXHIBITIONS, TV, FILMS AND MORE CULTURE Agenda ...
Æ This print of two women being menaced by Death and the Devil – quite the double-act – was made from a 1520s etching by German ...
EASTERN PROMISE For centuries, the Islamic world had a huge impact on the culture of the west: on images, decorative art, clothi ...
WORDS MATT ELTON 85 A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly Oneworld, September This collection of biographies offers a ...
Justin Marozzi traces three decades of travels by the unparalleled 14th-century wanderer across the Dar al-Islam – the vast Musl ...
AWL IMAGES Camels traverse the Sahara Desert in north Africa. In 1325, the young Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta set out east from ...
JOURNEYS In the footsteps of Ibn Battuta’s journeys across Africa and Asia n a piercingly clear day in June 1325, a 21-year-old ...
Æ ALAMY/AWL IMAGES/ ANDREW MCCONNELL–ROBERT HARDING Women browse a spice stall in the souks of Cairo’s Khan al-Khalili bazaar di ...
JOURNEYS In the footsteps of Ibn Battuta’s journeys across Africa and Asia 13 or 14 June 1325 The 21-year-old Ibn Battuta sets o ...
91 Æ ILLUSTRATION BY THERESA GRIEBEN 132 7 Having been invited in November 1326 to join a caravan heading north, Ibn Battuta tra ...
he found men “wearing no covering. This appeared a shocking thing to me, and I went to the governor and informed him of it.” Sai ...
Æ AWL IMAGES/ LEE FROST–ROBERT HARDING/AL AMY The ninth-century al- Qar aw iy yin mosque in Fez , the great imperial city of Mor ...
ALAMY Sailing across the Black Sea to the Crimea, Ibn Battuta ventured up the Volga, then travelled south through the Balkans. R ...
Justin Marozzi is a historian and travel writer, and the author of Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization (A ...
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Issue 18 – October/November 2019 BBC World Histories is published by Immediate Media Company Bristol Limited under licence from ...
Bryan C Keene is a curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum in LA. His latest book is the edited volume Toward a Global Middle ...
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